Grandpa Quotes - Page 6

• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Children, Father

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1343, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

  Curtis Jackson

  Grandparent, Grandfather, Church

  "Money talks". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2003.

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• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Fathers Day, Future

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.

  Amaury Nolasco

  Sorry, Grandma, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My grandpa was a preacher.

  Dolly Parton

  Preacher

  "Bbaaccss1 'Joyful Noise' Stars Dolly Parton And Queen Latifah Go Gospel". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Elephants

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.182, PublicAffairs

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• A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

  Lois Wyse

  Mother, Children, Grandma

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

  Roald Dahl

  Sometimes, Imagine, Heard

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• Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!

  Stephen Colbert

  Hearing, Aids, Turns

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• I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.

  Brandon Mull

  Hate, Past, Messing Up

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2010). “Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Kindness, Children, Life Lesson

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• Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

  Fanny Fern

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

  Eda LeShan

  Retirement, Attitude, Grandma

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• Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

  J. Norman Collie

  Grandmother, Men, Grandchildren

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• Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

  Jimmy Carter

  Responsibility, Pride, Grandchildren

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.

  Betty Ford

  Baby, Husband, Miracle

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• They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.

  Camara Laye

  Grandma, Heart, Grandmother

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• When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

  Jean Kerr

  Grandma, Grandmother, Thinking

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• Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

  Gottfried Keller

  Grandma, Kids, Gossip

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• So many things we love are you!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Grandma, Grandparent

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• Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

  Lucretius

  Grandma, Space, Torches

  "De rerum natura".

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• We have become a grandmother.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Grandma, Grandmother, Iron Lady

  Quoted in Times (London), 4 Mar. 1989

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• Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Moving, Grandma

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